> > I'd love to hear answers to this as well, as a Texan friend of mine > swears by Virtual Box over VMware stuff. I currently am rooting for > VMware btw. >
I asked because a guy from another mailing list asked about running VirtualBox as a local app on LTSP clients. It is interesting to me because I am running thinclients (using thinstation images) but I am running virtual machines on a server and it is not using client resources. I use Intel Atoms as clients so they have capabilities that I am not maximizing in my current setup. So I wanted to ask if anybody is running Vbox on Intel Atoms. Because if it runs well then running them on Thinstations or LTSP would be a great idea. > But I think it's better to qualify your question, by asking as well > what should be a good svctm metric from the output of "iostat -x" or > results from vmstat and the like, with what apps running, CPU and MEM > allocations, etc. The terms "acceptable" and "annoyingly slow" maybe > interpreted differently by different people. We use thin clients and virtualization for teaching purposes so I am not that particular in the performance of an application or service running in a guest OS. But what I mean with annoyingly slow is that you need to wait for about 20-30 seconds before seeing the results of your shell commands. For me VirtualBox is convenient because it has a good UI for user configurations but in terms of performance I believe KVM has the edge. I have not done benchmarks myself but this is what I have gathered from my research on the matter. Holden
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